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Food For Hope by Jeff Gottesfeld
In Food For Hope, the founder of food banks is profiled as well as the topics of food insecurity and poverty.John van Hengel was waiting in line to enter a dining room for the needy. The food wasn't...
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Global by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
In this graphic novel, two teens living in very different parts of the world, must deal with the effects of climate change.Twelve-year-old Sami lives with his grandfather in their village on the Bay of...
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In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee
In Limbo is touching memoir about growing up caught between two cultures, Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee believes that she can look like those around her. As she gets ready for the first day of high school,...
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One Last Shot by Kip Wilson
Gerda Pohorylle lives in Stuttgart, Germany with her parents, Heinrich and Gisela and her two younger brothers, Oskar and Karl, her Tante Terra and her husband, Onkel Moritz. Her father runs a delivery...
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Family Style by Thien Pham
Thien Pham's very first memory was of when he was five years old and his parents, Ha and Quang and his younger brother were in a boat on the sea, fleeing Vietnam. His mother told him not to drink the...
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Blood of Troy by Claire M. Andrews
Daphne has returned to Sparta after her successful mission to return to the gods, the Muses, caretakers of the Garden of the Hesperides. They had been stolen by the gods, Ares, Hermes and Nyx, and...
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Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Jarrett Krosoczka was sixteen-years-old and in high school when he first began working at a camp for children with cancer. For Jarrett is was to be a formative experience that would stay with him....
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My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom
A young girl cannot wait for her hair to grow. Her mother and grandmother (Nokomis) weren't allowed to have long hair. It was cut at the school they attended. But for a young girl letting her hair grow...
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Run For Your Life by Jane Mitchell
Azari's life has been split in two. The first part of her life was in her village in her home country with her mother and father, her older sister Sharnaz, her younger brothers Kashif and Musa, and her...
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Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan
Twins Zara and Zeeshan Aziz live in New York with their parents, Dr. Bilal Aziz and Dr. Rasheeda Aziz. The entire family are traveling to a pediatrics conference in Florida. There, Rasheeda will...
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A Horse Named Sky by Rosanne Parry
A horse named Sky is born into a family of horses that includes Mother, Auntie Gale and Auntie Rain, their stallion Thunder, and Rain's filly, Storm. Sky looks up to Storm who can run like the wind...
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Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War...
Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers is a beautiful tribute to some of World War II's most courageous women survivors: girls and young women enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army to be sexually abused for...
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Eagle Drums by Nasugrao Rainey Hopson
Pina lives with his mother and father in the harsh Arctic tundra, where winter lasts eight months, leaving them only four months to stock food. They are Inupiaq.Out on a hunting trip, Pina catches...
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Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by...
Chinese Menu explores the stories, myths and fables behind the many foods that make up Chinese cuisine.First up is a chapter on Chopsticks. Lin admits to using chopsticks incorrectly, that her parents...
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Kin: Rooted In Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford
In Kin, author Carole Boston Weatherford tells the story of her family, descended from ancestors brought to America via the Atlantic Slave trade.As a teenager, Weatherford was uninterested in her past,...
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Storm of Olympus by Claire M. Andrews
Storm of Olympus picks up where the previous novel, Blood of Troy ended. The Trojan War is over and Troy has been destroyed. Not only that but Daphne battled her nemesis, Nyx, who warped the mind of...
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The Possible Lives of W H, Sailor by Bushra Junaid
Coastal erosion has exposed a two-hundred-year old wooden coffin on the Strait of Belle Isle. The person in the coffin was buried with their head oriented east toward Africa. The man, with good teeth...
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Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen
Mia Harjo Horowitz attends West Hill Jewish Community School . She and her best friend, Chloe are eating lunch when a fellow student, Justin asks Mia if she is Spanish. Annoyed, Mia tells him her...
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Harboring Hope: The True Story of How Henny Sinding Helped Denmark's Jews...
Twenty-two-year-old Henny is stealing down the dark streets of Copenhagen, leading a mother and her toddler to a safe house on Strandgade (Strand Street). Along with many other Jewish families, they...
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Obaasan's Boots by Janis Bridger and Lara Jean Okihiro
Charlotte and her mother, Masumi, travel from their home in Vancouver to Toronto to visit her grandmother. On the flight out of British Columbia, Charlotte's mother switches from her Japanese name of...
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